Gebundenes Buch

Beyond Icons

Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America

Herausgeber: Caraher, William R.; Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L.; Kourelis, Kostis

Beschreibung

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s.

Autor

William R. Caraher is an archaeologist and historian who teaches in the Department of History and American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota. He has worked in Greece, Cyprus, and North America and studies the archaeology of Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, and the contemporary world. Kostis Kourelis is an architectural historian who teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on the buildings and landscapes of forced migration in the medieval and modern periods. He explores the history of humanitarianism and the relationship between radical art practices and archaeology. His current fieldwork centers on refugee camps in Greece, Japanese incarceration camps in the American West, ethnic neighborhoods in the United States, underground music venues, and deserted villages. Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian studies at Brandeis University in the Departments of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. Brooks Hedstrom is an archaeologist and historian of ancient and medieval Christianity of the eastern Mediterranean world. She examines the history of monastic makers of Late Antique objects and spaces and is the author of The Monastic Landscape in Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction and Desert Ascetics in Egypt (2017). Brooks Hedstrom is the Senior Archaeological Consultant for the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project-North.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781032351179
• ISBN-10: 1032351179
• Artikelnr.: 70602007